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QPID Health sequences the “digital
DNA” in your health record
Alvin Yu, MD, Clinical Content Engineer - July 22, 2015 - As an engineer
turned physician who returned to engineering as a QPID clinical content
engineer (yes, it’s confusing!), I’ve been fielding a lot of questions
from friends and family about the exciting problems our startup is
tackling. Here is one way of understanding what we do.
As we know, we all have DNA stored within our cells. DNA is the basic
building block of life, encoding our genes that determine a large part
of our biology – height, weight, gender, and health. This is what nature
has given each one of us as a starting point in life.
What we may not realize is that we all also have an extraordinary amount
of “digital DNA” that is stored in our healthcare record. This digital
DNA also encodes our biology and determines our health. Every time a
doctor writes a note, reports a lab result, interprets an x-ray, she is
encoding a digital gene that is stored away in the medical record.
DNA is, at its core, a long string of letters that on the outside makes
no sense to humans. However, over the past few decades, scientists have
made great strides sequencing our DNA and extracting information about
our genome to predict and improve health. Just like biologic DNA, our
healthcare records contain thousands of documents that often start to
blend into a seemingly meaningless long string of letters.
This is where QPID comes in. QPID sequences the digital DNA stored in
your entire healthcare record to derive insights for doctors, nurses,
case managers and quality personnel. QPID understands these digital
genes, making it possible to decipher, predict and ultimately prevent
diseases and avoid risks (such as hospital acquired conditions) for
individuals and entire populations.
This is how QPID helps clinicians make us healthier and the reason I
decided to join the QPID family! |